European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday May 4,1994former Nasa Engineer gets postal Job in shake up frown wire reports Chicago a. In some areas it takes a rocket scientist to get the mail delivered. In a shake up monday postmaster general Marvin Runyon named former Nasa Engineer William a Good As the new director of customer service arid sates for Illinois Indiana and Michigan. The Chicago postmaster District manager was also removed As was the manager of the Chicago processing and distribution Center. Inspectors have found nearly 70,000 pieces of undelivered mail in the Chicago area this year including 2,000 pieces behind the Home or a fired letter Carrier and about 3,000 in the trunk of another carriers car. Some of the mail was 7 years old. A a a a it  Good replaces ormer Rogers who was assigned. To a smaller operation in Kansas City to. Good who comes to Chicago from the Long Beach Calif., District began his postal career in 1970 As an Industrial Engineer for the los Angeles Post office after working on the Apollo program drought watch in Force Sacramento Calif. Once again californians Are counting the drops. The state which emerged from a devastating six year drought a year ago went Back under a Quot drought watch monday. That Means that residents Are asked to conserve water and that water from the state s 155 major reservoirs will be restricted with Farmers getting As Little As one third of Normal supplies and cities As Little As half. The state is suffering through one of its driest years this Century. Arizona seeks payback Phoenix a Arizona like California and Florida is demanding that Washington reimburse it for the Cost of imprisoning illegal aliens. Quot the state sued the government monday asking for More than $121 million to cover its costs in imprisoning More than 1,700 illegal immigrants convicted of felonies. /. A that a what Arizona should have received under a 1986 Federal Law requiring the . Government to reimburse the Stales for imprisoning illegal immigrants state attorney general Grant Woods said. A  rivalry blamed Bristol Conn. A a 17-year-old boy was shot on the Steps of the police court building monday in what authorities described As a Brazen gang related attack. An investigator with the  office chased the 15-Ycar-old suspect who surrendered in a parking Tot a Quarter Milc away police said. The youth was carrying a .38-caliber revolver. The suspects identity was not released because of his age. He was charged with attempted murder assault and carrying a firearm without a permit. The victim Jorge Sierra was flown to Hartford Hospital where he was in critical condition after undergoing surgery for a Chest wound a Hospital spokesman said. V chief stale a attorney John Bailey said the attack was gang related. Police said that the gunman was a member of los solids and that the victim was with the latin  receives Gator Aid Jacksonville Fla. Its Alligator mating season and one police officer found out How worked up gators can get. The 9-foot mate Alligator tried to take a bite out of officer . Floyd then ripped a chunk off his Cruiser. The Gator had wandered onto a Highway sunday and lunged at cars before Floyd showed up. Quot that darned thing almost grabbed me a Floyd said a it came after me with its Mouth wide open. When he  get me he bit my patrol car and was just shaking it until he Tore part of it  the Gator pulled off a 10-Inch chunk of plastic from the front bumper a state trapper was called in. He snared the Gator and captured a 2-foot baby Alligator in a ditch. The Young Alligator was to be relocated to an isolated area but nuisance alligators 4 feet and longer Are killed because they pose a threat to people and pets. Coast guard change of command rear . John l. Lennon left and rear Anu Kent h. Williams Salute during a coast guard presentation of the colors monday in Boston. Lignori a native of Hartford Conn., will assume the duties of the 1st coast guard District commander from Williams who is being promoted to vice Admiral and will become chief of stall for the coast guard Headquarters in Washington . A a a a a a. 1 a. A a a a a a a a a a found in Florida Field West Palm Beach Fla. A a visitor from Sweden carrying brochures for area tourist attractions was found strangled in a Sandy Field police said monday. A a. Quot a a a a a a. The body of Eduardo de Jesus Bell Rodriguez 43, an Al salvadoran native who lived in Stockholm was found saturday beneath a tree police said. An autopsy performed sunday showed a broken Bone in his Throat indicating strangulation said Palm Beach county sheriffs spokesman Bob Ferrell. A foreign Exchange receipt carried by the victim showed he had obtained $1,000 in . Currency but he had no Cash when his body was found Ferrell said. The unemployed bioengineer flew into Miami Oft Friday afternoon and was dead by late saturday morning but investigators had no information about his activities after his arrival. Jowe know he came into. Miami. We done to know what happened after that a Ferrell said. A we done to know if he was Here on business or what his purpose  a partial Check of hotels and Auto rental agencies turned up nothing Ferrell said. Investigators found a Palm Beach county attractions map and other tourist brochures in the victims pocket. Bell whose parents reside in Al Salvador had lived in Sweden for 10 years Ferrell said. He was found face Down in Sand his Mouth full of Sand with a stick Between his clenched Teeth investigators said. Nine foreign tourists were killed in Florida in the 13 months ending last september generating worries about the Impact of the violence on the states leading Industry a tourism. A. A new Orleans apr a foreign visitor shot to death near the French Quarter was a German air Force sergeant who was in the United states for military training authorities say. Martin Hecker 25, was killed during a struggle Early sunday with two teen age girls who had lured him to a deserted area near the City a popular tourist Section said police sgt. Barry Fletcher. Hecker had been training at fort Rucker ala., and was visiting new Orleans during a break investigators said. A a a officials at fort Rucker said Hecker from the Northern German town of Rinteln was taking initial flight training for helicopters at the Southeastern Alabama base. A. A a a. A a i about 20 germans Are among 106 students from several countries who Are training at the base 275 Milenas sergeant East of new Orleans. The others Are from the Netherlands France Britain Denmark Italy and Canada. Hecker began flight training at fort Rucker on feb. 7 and was to have finished in june. Chanda Desilva 18, and a 16-year-old whose name was not released because of her age were booked on first degree murder charges sunday Fletcher said. The two apparently met the victim shortly before the Holdup he said. The three then went to a deserted Back Corner of Armstrong Park near the French Quarter where the16-year-Oid pulled a gun Fletcher said. Hecker was killed during a struggle for the weapon. The killing occurred before 5 . On the final Day of the new Orleans jazz and heritage festival which at traded 424,000 people to the City Over a period of two it weekends. Korean War vet gets belated burial Naguabo puerto Rico apr sgt. Frank Morales a korean War combatant from puerto Rico who disappeared during a Battle in 1950, has finally been Laid to rest with full military honors in his Hometown cemetery. Morales was buried in this East coast City sunday in a private ceremony the san Juan Star reported monday. An army Bono guard was flown from Texas for the rites. The Pentagon notified Morales widow Minerva in late january that her husband had been identified marking the first positive identification of . Remains returned from North Korea since the end of the 195053 korean War. The army declared Morales missing after a Surprise chinese attack killed about 600 members of his unit in Cav div at Ulsan North Korea on nov. 2, he was among 8,140 . Service members listed As missing in the korean War. North Korea has not allowed . Officials to enter the country to search for remains but has returned some sets of them. Morales moved to new York from puerto Rico at ask 3 and joined the army at 18. He served in France using world War ii and at 37 was married less than two years when he died